Author: Blazingcatfur

Iran vows ‘devastating’ response as US threatens crushing sanctions designed to ‘collapse’ regime

Iran vows ‘devastating’ response as US threatens crushing sanctions designed to ‘collapse’ regime

Iran threatened “devastating” consequences if the US moves ahead with imposing crippling sanctions against the regime — after the Trump administration pledged to hit the Islamic Republic with the toughest financial penalties in history.

“With preparedness across land, sea, air, air defense and cyberspace, Iran’s armed forces will respond to the enemy’s new threats with crushing, punishing and devastating responses,” Major General Ali Abdollahi, chief of staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, said on Iranian media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Collapse; Washington Imposes New Tariffs

Canada-U.S. Trade Talks Collapse; Washington Imposes New Tariffs

Crucial trade talks between the United States and Canada to stave off punishing new tariffs by the Trump administration on Canadian goods collapsed late Friday, with Canada saying it would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”

United States trade representative Jamieson Greer told reporters that Canada had walked away from the negotiating table after days of talks had brought them close to an agreement that would avert 50 percent tariffs on more Canadian goods. President Trump had this week repeatedly said that the two countries, locked into a trade war since last year, were very close to a “good deal.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse, Triggering 50% Trump Tariffs

US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse, Triggering 50% Trump Tariffs

An agreement between the US and Canada to avert a fresh round of tariffs fell apart at the last minute, meaning the Trump administration will impose a 50% import tax on billions of dollars in Canadian goods.

New tariffs will kick in at 12:01 a.m. time on Saturday on hundreds of items the US buys from Canada, such as plywood, liquor, electrical equipment and hockey gear.

Carney Bloviates

CBC confirms collapse – Canada declines to finalize trade deal, new tariffs set to take effect: U.S. trade rep

Canada vows dollar-for-dollar response to Trump’s 50% tariffs

Canada rejects U.S. trade deal, tariffs come into force

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More Than Half of Canadians Struggling to Meet Financial Commitments: Federal Memo

More Than Half of Canadians Struggling to Meet Financial Commitments: Federal Memo
More Canadians owe more money than ever before and use debt to survive, with millions of people having “no margin for error” if a financial crisis strikes, a new document suggests.
“Many Canadians are under financial strain … over half of Canadians (53%) report that they struggle to keep up with financial commitments,” the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) said in a recently released memo, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pentagon reportedly fires publisher and editor of US military news outlet Stars and Stripes

Pentagon reportedly fires publisher and editor of US military news outlet Stars and Stripes

The Pentagon is reported to have fired the publisher and the editor of Stars and Stripes, the US military news outlet that has clashed with the Trump administration and armed forces brass over its partly taxpayer-funded reporting.

Publisher Max Lederer and editor Erik Slavin received termination notices, CBS News reported on Friday. The cause cited was insubordination, and they have been given five days to appeal against their dismissals.

Slavin later told the Associated Press that his firing for insubordination was “for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line”.

More to this I suspect.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Half-naked man in hardhat latest suspect in string of BC arson attempts

PENTICTON — A half-naked dancing man wearing little else but a hardhat is the latest unnamed suspect in a recent string of arson attempts in the Interior region of British Columbia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Michel Maisonneuve: Canada must defend the North to keep it

Michel Maisonneuve: Canada must defend the North to keep it

“Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver,” Gilles Vigneault sings — my country is winter. Canada is shaped by cold, distance and northern regions inhabited by resilient people. Whether we embrace it or not, we are a polar nation.

Sovereignty over nearly 10 million square kilometres must be demonstrated: we must prove we can protect the vast North, develop its resources and create opportunities for its people. We must stop thinking small.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Arctic Sovereignty", Canada

Harry and Meghan: return of the grifters

Harry and Meghan: return of the grifters

So after a six-year sojourn in southern California, Harry and Meghan – partners in crime in what I dubbed ‘the Grabdication’ – are heading back to Blighty.

I don’t think we’ve missed them very much at all. Distance has not led to enchantment, and their tawdry antics have appeared less riveting as time goes by, from Meghan’s jam business to the reality TV shows to Harry’s charity scandals. As that very frank man from Spotify said of them: ‘“The Fucking Grifters” – that’s the podcast we should have launched with them.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Germany’s demographic disaster

Germany’s demographic disaster

Early on 13 August 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided. The East German regime was building the Berlin Wall in a desperate attempt to stop its people from leaving. Around 2.5 million had already done just that, since the foundation of the two German states in 1949. When the Wall fell peacefully in 1989, the exodus wasn’t supposed to resume. But it did, and on a devastating scale.

Sixty-five years on from when the wall went up, Germany’s eastern regions are trapped in a depopulation spiral. Nearly a quarter of former East Germans have moved west or abroad since German reunification. Most are young, well-educated and female. That’s left behind a region that is now Germany’s oldest, with its birth rate among the lowest, and with many of its communities watching schools, playgrounds, clubs and traditions slowly disappear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Licence plate readers have sparked outrage in the U.S. Now they’re being installed across Canada

Licence plate readers have sparked outrage in the U.S. Now they’re being installed across Canada

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown recently celebrated the installation of a network of powerful police surveillance cameras capable of scooping up personal data from unsuspecting drivers.

Automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) systems at 50 intersections would make the city, in Brown’s words, “the safest place to call home and the most inconvenient place in Canada for organized crime to operate.” And he said they had overwhelming support from participants in a telephone town hall.

But in the U.S., the same AI-driven technology has become a scourge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

The Catholic Groups Harboring Muslim Migrants in Ceuta

The Catholic Groups Harboring Muslim Migrants in Ceuta

Two weeks after over 70,000 Muslim migrants invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta, the siege of the embattled city continues with unknown numbers of migrants still overrunning the area. While Morocco, which allowed the invasion to protest Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez’s recent visit to rival Algeria, is no longer allowing further invasions, many thousands of migrants were left behind.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Catholic Church